Hair-waver.



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Erase ANDREWS AND HERBERT r. ANDREWS, or PORTLAND, OREGON.

HAIR-WAVER.

To a'ZZ whom 15 may concern Be 1t 'known that we, 'ELISE ANDREWS and Hnnnnnr P..- ANDnEws, citizens of the United States,A "residing in the city of Portland,

county? of Multnomah, and State of Oregona` havel invented certainfnew and useful Imrovements in Hair-lVavers, yof which the ollowing is a specification.

'Our invention relates to hair wavers, and niore particularly to av device by means of which hair can be made wavy without being wrapped or twisted around curling irons or other curling devices such as are in common "l ,n v l i-iimong the salientobjects of our inventiongafre, to provide a new'l and improved device for-forming in the hair a series of waves or crimps, whereby to make it as nearly as possiblelike hair which-is naturally so; to provide a device of the character referred to which is more conveniently ap lied to the hair and which is'less injurious t eretothan are the old stylefcurling irons;'to provide a device of thecharacter referred to comprising companion pressing or molding members between which the hair can be .placed and pressed as .said members are closed together, the hair being held and pressedor molded into waves or curls when the device is heated; to provide in combination with companionmembers adapted to so rece-ive and press the hair therebetween, a series of holding combsv adapted to be moved l alternately in oppositedirections laterally o. said companion members, whereby to move portions of the hair placed therebeltween to one side, and other alternate portions thereof to the opposite side, thus form- 'ing and holding it in curved lines extending back and forth from one side to the" other, for the pressing and molding operation; to provide' in combination with companion pressing and molding members, a heating medium therein for heating the hair to the right temperature to cause it 'to set in the form in which it is heldgand, in general, to provide an improved land simplified device of the character referred to, comprising companion members adapted to be clamped together, with means in combination therewith for forming and holding the hair, placed therebetween, in waves or curves for the treating process.

'In 'order that others may understand our invention, we have shown in the,accompany -ing sheet of drawings, for purposes -of illus- A Specification of Letters Patent. application aiea'nay 15, 1912, serial N0. 697,473.

ratentedsept. 9, 1913.

tration only, one practical embodiment thereof, which we will now describe.

Figure l is .side or edge elevation thereof, partly in section, showing the corrugated or wave-likeorms of the companion members, with hair placed therebetween; Fig. 2 is a,

-race or plan view of one of the companion inembers, being the one to the left of Fig. 1, L

with a small amount of hair laid thereupon,

and with a series of combs set .down there.

upon, in their-respective slots, to show 'how portions of the hair can be moved to one side, or in one direction, and alternate portions thereof moved in the opposite direction; and Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view taken on line 3 3 of Fig. 1 indicating also resistance coils for electrically heating the device.

In this illustrative embodiment of the invention, the companion pressing members are designated as l and 2 and are provided with corrugated or wave-like meeting faces adapted to interlit with each other and to receive hair therebetween, in the manner indictated in Fig. l. These members are preferably formed hollow and as light as possible, and to have therein a series of hea-ting coils, as 3-3, for heating the pressing or molding faces thereof.

The device can be connected to any suitable source of electric energy, and any of the well known electrical appliances used for regulating and cont-rolling the temperature of the device, or for, admitting or cutting oii" the iiow of current thereto.

When the hair is pressed between the members l and 2, it is thereby formed into waves or crimps, and when current is'Y turned on and the members are properly heated, the hair is thus set. It is to be understood, of course, that any of the known powders or other prepa-rations can be used in the pressing operation for giving permanency'or staying quality thereto. We have also provided another means for forming the hair into curves or crimps extending back and forth', from side to side, and when this means is applied to the form of device shown in the drawings, these curves or crimps stand in oblique planes, as distinguished from a vertical or horizontal plane. In order to form these curves extending from side to sidefwe provide the companion l pressing members, of whatever form they may be, upon their meeting faces with a series of sliding combs, as H, adapted to be moved laterally in opposite directions in slots or slidewa-ys 5 and 6, in the members 1 and 2, respectively. In the form shown in the drawings, the combs are slidably mounted in oppositely disposed slots formed in the crests and troughs of the meeting faces of the wave-like forms, so that if said combs are moved laterally alternately in opposite directions, the portions of the hair passing over the crests of either of said wave-like formsv are moved to one side or 1n one direction, and those portions of the hair passing across the troughs of the same form l to side, in an oblique direction trough.

are moved in .the op osite direction, so that there is a double ormation or curvature given to the hair in the form of device here shown and-described. It is curved or waved up and down, and is' also curved from side from crest to It will thus be understood that we have a device providing two ways of forming waves or curls in hair placed therebetween, and

that devices can be constructed for using both methods separately, or a device similar to the one here shown and described can be made where both methods are used in one machine.

` We are aware that changes can be made lin the embodiment here shown for illustrative purposes without departing from the spirit'of the invention, and we do not, there# fore, limit the invention to the form shown, except as we may be limited by the hereto appended claims.

We claim:

1.v In a hair Waver, in combination, companion members having opposed pressing surfaces adapted to fit together and to rei hair ce-ive hair therebetween and provided in their adjacent faces with registering transversely extendingk slots or guideways, and a series of combs slidably mountedr in said slots or guideways formovingportions of placed therebetween Ain oppositev directions. v

2. A hair waver comprising in combina'- tion two companion pressing members having intertting corrugated faces adapted to receive hair therebetween and provided with oppositelyV disposed transversely extending slots or guideways extending longitudinally of the corrugations in 'saidmeeting faces, va series of combs slidingly mounted in said slots or guideways, and means within sa'dc.

' slots or guideways, heatlng coils within said members for heating the faces thereof, substantially as described.

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands this 6th day of May,.1912, at Portland, Oregon.

ELIsE ANDREWS. HERBERT P. ANDREWS.

In presence of- ALFRED TAYLOR, DANIEL E. POWERS.

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Washington, D. C. 5 

